CBI pushes for perjury case against Prashant Bhushan
19 Nov 2014 4:25 AM IST
In his application before the Supreme Court, CBI Director Ranjit Sinha said petitioner Kamal Kant Jaswal, Director of NGO ‘Common Cause’, and his lawyer Bhushan, had claimed before the Supreme Court that they had received information from ‘trustworthy and reliable sources’ that appraisal report by Income Tax department about meat exporter Moin Qureshi covered in ‘some detail’ his ‘dealings’ with the CBI chief.
Jaswal, who is a former IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, had moved an application through his counsel asking directions to the Centre for submitting Qureshi’s appraisal report.
The content of the application is ‘clearly mischievous and is based upon untrue facts in which mis-statements have been deliberately made so as to obtain favourable orders from this Hon’ble court’, the CBI Director said in his plea.
Sinha said on 17 October 2014, the matter was heard by a three-judge bench headed by Justice M B Lokur wherein Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, appearing on behalf of the Union of India, submitted the appraisal report of the Income Tax Department in respect of Qureshi in a sealed cover.
Jaswal, who is a former IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, had moved an application through his counsel asking directions to the Centre for submitting Qureshi’s appraisal report.
The content of the application is ‘clearly mischievous and is based upon untrue facts in which mis-statements have been deliberately made so as to obtain favourable orders from this Hon’ble court’, the CBI Director said in his plea.
Sinha said on 17 October 2014, the matter was heard by a three-judge bench headed by Justice M B Lokur wherein Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, appearing on behalf of the Union of India, submitted the appraisal report of the Income Tax Department in respect of Qureshi in a sealed cover.
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